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Posted 02 December 2005 - 04:42 PM

dt98rmb

Posted 05 December 2005 - 02:38 PM

Nope, didn't do that...but I have since gone and installed all previous updates and reinstalled the latest update, and it hasn't fixed the problem.

The computer boots up okay and seems to work okay until I use something explorer related, start bar sometime hangs and going through my computer for instance, but as soon as I ctrl/alt/del explorer, the puter seems okay, well using FF, Trillian, just can't then use explorer to open files etc, which is a bit of a chore.

When I shut down, it tends to either stutter on explorer or rundll32.exe...I'm starting to think it might be something bad, but I don't want to do a format and reinstall of windows...

dt98rmb

Posted 05 December 2005 - 06:28 PM

dt98rmb

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Click start then run, type sfc /scannow then press enter to replace the system files, you need the XP CD and get a blue progress bar, reboot when the bar goesYou will still have the option to repair XP which leaves the data alone

I did the first part, wasn't asked for a reboot, but I take it I'll have to do a windows xp repair then?